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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1932)
THE ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—February 1». 1*S* Hear Me Talkin' to Ya The Catfish Kid Continued from Faye 3 S Í LOOK INt; AT TIIK STARS gave It right back- They stood In Ihe renter of Uir ring like a roup.'» By BILL with of trees In a gale, with arms going to fast It was almuat Impossible to M ATT HUGHES Arid Ihe Irathrr was P A R D O N M Y O LO VE, or word* to that effect, were In all probability follow them. UM-d by Tuny Canaonm aa hr stepped Into tit» ring with Kid Chocolate smacking and bumping and bounc budles Uk<- a pair of Triday» a«u In a right which two official*. the referee and one ing off their sweating buckshot off a rock ju d jr. derided that the white boy won. How they fought' And the great JIM A IK K fY H D A U G H T E R . * lo lt (lultrrrra. the Keed'a manager protested that Canzonerls glovea weir not regulation milt» and almuat tame to blow» with Hammy (.old roan, sea of fans, clouded In rlgar aim ke Old Jim Aiken was oi<e o f the biggest men In North Carolina when he the Italian» manager, aliortiy brfore lltr right, about llte mltta. Aa a heaved and howled all about them « a s alive and stirring many years ago His fame as a tradesman and tils raving for a knockout Nobody heard m u ll Cluiterrra has been Indefinitely suspended influence as a politician was known and felt far beyond the confines of his Friends at mine who saw the fight say that the least Chocolate should the bell, but they were finally pried native township of Brevard, where he ran the grocery store, a barbershop, The fans kept right on roar have received was a draw, citing that lie actually shaded Canionerl The apart th poal office and lived up on a hill In the biggest house In town claim Is made that those ooruierled with tlie flgltt are direct descendants ing and thumping their neighbors Ui Jim was the ooiorrd son of a rich white father and a lot of the old a delirious trenay of Jraar James and tlie howl la raised tltat the Keed can't get a fair deal gentleman s power reverted to his shoulder* before the latter was found dead And Ihe fourth and the fifth any murr in brd one bright morning from poisoned punch There wasn't any Investi They All of ahlch Is eery unfortunate and creates another putrid 'H arvard rounds were Just the same gation of the death, snd in the absence of a will the wealth of the father pirate excuse* aranta In the fistic Industry The odds were against Cho rmarked and .slugged and arallooed went to the recognized heirs of the old gentleman, who were white. Instead colate all around. The beat way for him to win was to knock out the Neither seemed to have the slightest of Jim Aiken's family, who were colored. while bnv Hut a t course, this r a n t always be done I'm not one to advantage now Jim had plenty In hla own right, however, and nothing terrible happened Slug went to Ihe floor for the first I > I . 1 . 1 . 1 I Very time a dark gfclgned lighter loses but 1 th nk tt no to the Aiken clan until Jim. himself, mas killed In an explosion while serving A light to the mure than fair that the boys be rematrhrd The fight was too close to time in the sixth as volunteer fireman, when the fire extinguisher exploded It was one of button did It, and I thought hr would Irt It go In the manner It has. those thing* that the leading loamsmen pull down the street by hand But somehow he And did you know that the Keed turned over the entire purse of his never get up Well. Jim was dead and among his dcsc-ndanls was his daughter. Loretta Monday night fight to Hlark HIM. a slablernate, who Ig now totally blind? scrambled to hia feet Just brfore the Aiken, a comely laa*. who had a yen lor the stage But the sons of Jim tenth Count and went at It again. -------------------O ------------------ Aiken would have none of this. The Aiken name would not be dragged across T i l l TI.AMH are lined up and the play Is about to begin when the um Hark and forth, earner to corner the footlights. pire's whistle blows, heralding the fart llial a no' Iyer substitute has gun one Side to the other they raged and The sister refused to abandon her stage career but consented to change out on the gridiron fought. Three minutes must have tier name Bhe changed It to Jackie Mabley. the surname from her husband. This Is only a repetition of an occurrence that you hove previously wit seemed like hours to them; It cer Bert Mabley. and the Jackie from no place in particular. Today she Is one nessed probably fifteen or twenty times during the gansr You get the tainly did to me My boy was U r- 1 of the leading comediennes of the stage s u itin g lineup, maybe, but after the first len minutes you frequently don't lug. but so aras the Kid No human Bhe played two years and a half at Connie's Inn; a year at Small's P ara know who Is In Ihere fighting for dear old Whalaltsname beings rould keep up that terrific dise; long runs at the Alhambra in slock, and a stretch at the Howard m There has been some complaint by fans about the large number of sub pace for long And yet, they did D C . starred in "Fast and Furious " stitutions in »»m e of the games. Borne of ip r fans Insist that they pay their keep tt up She has three children a boyish bob and bright red finger nails She money to see certain first string players errtain stars, perform and not to Short rights and lefts Uiumped hulls tea A1 Jolaon. Ruth Etting. Louis Armstrong. Bessie Smith. Ethel Waters. are a parade of substitutes. Others point out that a team with a large like a drum-roll. Slug smacked home George Bias and tells the dirtiest jokes without c a u in g offense If the number of reserves can often wear down Its opponents late In the game a left to the ear. but In doing ao orchestra doesn't play Just right she says. Wait a minute boys, let me get Tills, they say. la unfair to the team with the small reserve Ust. as a took a eight to the heart He put oft by myself," and she doe* contest with. say. IS men against 33 men Is not a fair lest of skill but one two left hook* In tlie Kid's body The For seven years she worked under cork and suddenly realized that she of endurance They suggest that the number of substitutes should be Kid countered with a single crashing was just a* big a hit without it. and now. instead of black face and red Ups. definitely limited for any one content right high on the rheekbone. My you'll see a pleasing brown skin gal. who seems to get a whole lot of fun out T heir are others however, who point out that the game Is primarily boy was concentrating on Ihe body of livmi. and making folks laugh, and begorrah; stie s old Jim Aiken a for the students, and not for the paid rttslomerv and that the larger the now, trying to force the Kid to lower daughter. number of »Indents given an opportunity to participate In any game, the his arms. The Kid backed away • • • • better for them Tills argument of course, can be carried to a point of covered up A whistling right to the S LIP S T H A T PASS IN TH E N IG H T . absurdity, vu : Imagine M men being used by one team Just In order to button stretched him on the canvas! The scallion collecting department has just referred to me an article give them a chance to play The rhamp roiled on the reslned I would not be surprised If at some none loo distant date the ofBctals floor tike a lazy man stretching The appear mg In the New York Age to wit M IS IN F O R M E D N E W S P A P E R M E N add rules makers will do something about this matter. There la certainly count was going on. He got to one Editor of The New York Age an unevenness of competition when one tram rustics battalions of »hock knee shook hi* tiead The challenger W nting In the Baltimore Afro-American about tlie old Tousssint tnxgM upon the field to ward oft tlte attack of a mere handful of fighting waited, his eyes fastened on hta for L Overture club, wheie he says Negro celebrities "whooped up things" warriors Ihe Kid was up again' They bark in l*»t. Ralph Matthews says- “Charlie Anderson. Collector of Maybe you'll live lung enough to see a suitable change made. fought' Internal Revenue of New York, and Sol Johnson, linguist and interpre The tenth round, and then the ter at the immigration port at Ellis Island, have passed on." I levrnth went bv Still they battled This would be startling news to Mr Anderson, who. while some H like two caged lion* what disfigured, is still in the ring and drawing pay from the Federal Now Slug was on the flo o r -a right Government as Collector of Internal Revenue; also to Sol Johnson, amidships. II didn't seem as though hale and hearty, socially active as twenty-five years ago. and holding any man could lake that one and down his old Job on Ellis Island. get up again. I grunted mysrlf with By T H E H O O K W O R M Just such inaccuracies as these appear too frequently In the Negro Ihe force of it as it struck But he W om en l t u l l d . l v bv Sadie lake press, and the aspiring young writers guilty of making them furnish old get up again. And he began D a n iel, the A ou M ialed P u h lK ll readers with misinformation instead of information forcing the fight again, too. T h is uvon t*a has help era. W ashington, DC.; |g7 C A R O L IN E D IX O N Hoarse shouts of encouragement page«. 1931 ed so maay people, you I f the writer recalls, the article In which these names were mentioned roared about him Hr pumped fierce was the reminiscences of an old timer. To his recollection the gentlemen should try It In your With the writing of "Wo«r.eii fist* into the Kid's body. Into hi* were dead Wouldn't I have been an Old Meame to go snooping around ess*, when bothered with ronatl- Builder*. ' Bailie Daniel brings to snarling fare The Kid came right behind his back and call him a liar. It is better that I made the mistake public of America a bark with a* good, or better patl.m troubles, such as bilious Uie reading than the undertaker, but I apologize, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize. The twelfth, and then the thlr- , • • • • ness. Indigestion, aotir stomach, book, the value of which will In tewnth. What a grueling grind that crease many tunes with the passage rot Ira doe to gas, alrk headache, L IT T L E T H IN G S W O R T H K N O W IN G . of time. Bhe has taken seven plouecr was! That Sunny Nichols, the Blue Rhythm Boys maestro, is a brother of "m u d d y" com pletion, bad breath. Neither one of them rould slop the women, whose works and contribu Corlenne K Robinson, ex-publlcity director for the Chicago Regal and now Utter taste, coaled tongue. Alsu other, that much was evident befoie a columnist on the Interstate Tattler. And the tribe hails from Duluth. Minn. tions to the welfare of present-day the last round got under way. And when you feel a That Gladys Ridley, one of the prettier torso twirlers. who Just finished humanity In the fields of education, Ihe fifteenth frame, with both men cold coming on, social service, and finance, have worn and battered, « a s the hardesl a tour with Wartng's Pennsylvanians, was christened Gladys Massie down in Culm and took the Ridley tag while playing with Andrew and Ethel tak e R lg rk - made of them the embodiment of a fought of them all. When the final Ridley, known as Ihe Ridley Trio. Draught to open strong Ideal, and given us a biogra fong sounded, both men practically Tliat the Twilight boys tPansies to you' have found a combine whereby the bowels. phy of each, a full-length port]ait, cut on their feet, nothing could pos they have refused to pay more than $100 for entertainment. Street corner sibly have been handed to them but "lie tore 1 atsrt- i il you will gigolos have been getting from S3 00 to $10.00 with liquor, silk shirts and •d using Tiled - a draw. And so It was. with every room thrown in. It's the depression, my dears, and the she wolf Is at the Lucy C raft Laney. Janie Porter fo rd s B la c k - body happy The Kid retained his door Harrell. Maggie Lena Walker, Mary rrown. but Slug had certainly proved ■ »aught, t suf That Forbes Randolph, tlie Englishman who took a stab at the American fered from tf l ed Mctcod Belliune, Nannie Helen B u r hi* met tie It was tlie greatest feeling snd poor show business by staking Fast and Eunous," was clocked by the Broadway roughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, light Madison Square Garden had ap petite. After clique and lost $(10 000 and Jam* Edna Hunter are pioneers, rver seen, and a harder-fought bat taking one pack* That Bert Whitman carries a big pooch with her everywhere and he is age, I felt much llie lengthening shadows of whose tle I'll never hop? to witness. tw i years old. answers to the name ol Buddah and Is as tempermental about better. For the prr.sonaluie* still animate their But foe all their kern rivalry, the 1 his kennel ration* as a pruna donna. pent fifteen years, monumental undertakings with a liv two boy* remained the best ol That Arthur Noble, lier present heart holder, is a native of Jacksonville. I have been keep ing lire friends. In fart, their attachment ing nty medicine Florida W as a chorus boy In "Shuffle Along" and curtain manager of the W illi an eve for definite and un for one another seemed to grow eahlnct supplied Blue Kitten Cabaret In Atlantic City, and is one of the best dressed men on derlying value. Miss Daniel has with « package brought us into Intimate touch with stronger and stronger In the days the stage. It Is he who In s driven Bert s pea green and egg ehell sport model of thl» medicine" these women In an easy, well con that followed. Both had cleaned up something or other most of those thousands of miles on the speedometer. — J. H. fhifdrs, structed, plainly printed, profuaely a grand sum from tht-s battle, and dudereos, g. C. illustrated book, she carries us oyer a return match was practically as Prepared from approved medici | the ground of hard .hips and toll Into I sured nal plants, finely ground ao that the arena of effective living This' About a week after the fight. has been the road of each of these Slug came to me and announced men, women anil children readily pioneers their Intention of getting an apart get fa that benefit of the cleansing Miss Daniel has planned this book ment together somewhere In Harlem lasatlve action which makes lllark- as tile hist of a series of volumes I.here they rould live like real men Draught so |e>pu!at. Bold at drug Which will give the biographical stores. pictures of other famous American I istead of spending their whole time Thedford'a women For the present, she put* In either my or Billy's gymnasium 1.1 not sensing what would be the ulti tier stress on the trail-blazers. Much a book carries with It some mate result, consenled, and Billy In U# Pa ch ag 'i (c <* thing more than the flashy coloring evidently did the same for the Kid And right there was where Ihe of the blogiaphv of a Nelson or a Florence Nightingale It carries trouble started with It the deep spiritual forees that (To be eonllnurdl i npellcd a group of women who suf fered, not only the natural obstacles I which any woman encounters In a IF YOU W ANT I tight for Independent recogni tion fur service In the held of human Money, Love, F.asy Life relations, but the artificial barriers of prejudice and race hatred. ToAteit moRt tip to date apectacloa w ith la rg e r le a r full ▼talon These women have started out len ses g u a ra n te e d to im prove your \islop. rra*t finest print, with d e a r minds, and determbied v orlt, sew . far or near. Insui.J a gain st break Inc or ta r - W B IT t TOD AT hearts, to do service for live down pishlm :. W ill am nae and iM tuh t you— or no cost. 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